Founded in 1803 as Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church, this congregation met in members’ homes until it paid $1.50 for a half-acre tract and built a small frame church 2.5 mi. east. The founders’ cemetery there includes graves of early church families. The congregation moved to this site in 1877, when this sanctuary was dedicated and called “a handsome wooden edifice.” It was renamed Townville Presbyterian Church in 1885. In 1954 the building was covered in brick veneer and given a new narthex and rear addition. Townville Academy, which stood behind the church, became a public school in 1902.